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The 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. He liked to quote a favorite proverb, “Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . ”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
The study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable.
What is eugenics?
The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
What is a monopoly?
British passenger ship that was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat during World War I. The sinking shifted the U.S.'s stance on neutrality.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
A prominent leader of the women's suffrage movement and a social reformer. She met Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the two suffragists worked to gain independence and equality for women for the rest of their lives.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This amendment prohibited the sale, transportation, and manufacture of alcohol in the United States.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
A legal arrangement where one person holds assets for the benefit of another.
What are trusts?
A statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
What are The Fourteen Points?
Between August 1918 and March 1919 this pandemic spread worldwide, claiming over 25 million lives - more people than perished in the fighting of the First World War.
What is the Spanish influenza?
An American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. He introduced segregation into the federal government.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
A peace treaty signed in 1919 that ended World War I.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
People who worked to make American society a better and safer place in which to live.
Who were progressives?
A wealthy, powerful, or influential businessperson the term is often used to describe entrepreneurs.
What are captains of industry?
The movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to urban cities in the North, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
What is The Great Migration?
An American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She later was active in promoting justice for African Americans.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
Laws passed by the United States Congress during World War I, essentially limiting freedom of speech during wartime.
What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
What is dollar diplomacy?
An international organization that aimed to prevent war and promote cooperation among countries.
What is The League of Nations?
The post WWI anxieties about political extremists and radicals led to widespread demonization and political persecution of leftists and immigrants.
What is the "Red Scare"?
A prominent American writer and activist who fought for women's legal and social equality in the mid to late 19th century. Her work in the women's rights movement included writing the Declaration of Sentiments and organizing the women's suffrage movement.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
A 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws. The case established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The act of imposing a set of moral values on a culture that doesn't share those values.
What is moral imperialism?
An addition to the Monroe Doctrine that stated the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
One of the most devastating racial violence events in U.S. history, when a white mob attacked the prosperous African American community, destroying homes, businesses, and killing dozens, if not hundreds, of Black residents.
What is the Tulsa Massacre?